Tetelestai

A powerful piece of symphonic rock. It is about 3 moments of the human being. The before, during and after knowing the meaning of the word Tetelestai.

  • It is a piece for choir, symphony orchestra, rock band, soloists and Latin percussion
  • Key C sharp minor, C minor, D major,
  • Length ca. 25:00

Composer Moises Sánchez

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Program Note

I composed this musical work in 2013. I have been a very curious man about the origin of words, and I always resort to etymology. I remember that a speaker from Spain was speaking in depth about the scientific sufferings of Christ, he caught my attention when he mentioned the word Tetelestai, which is the Greek for the last sentence that Jesus Christ said before he died. From that moment I set out to investigate everything about that act of crucifixion, death and resurrection. Understanding this, I set out to see the effects on people before, during and after knowing the death and resurrection of Christ and how they adopt this for their lives. My work, despite touching a religious theme, is not a religious piece, it is a piece that through 5 movements describes those 3 states of the human being.
In a metaphoric way I have placed a moral city within the human being that is devastated by rocks that fall on it. We will call rocks for the destructive effects of our negative acts. The city is feeling destroyed by a rain of rocks because the law of gravity does not favor. Frustration causes human beings to become bad and ruthless beings capable of everything, but the time comes where they know the meaning of the word Telelestai and enter a state of zero gravity where the rocks no longer fall, this gives way to an Explosion in the universe where there is a luminosity that comes from the Supernova where the old star died, exploded and gave way to a new star.
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